Search Papers

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get/search/research/papers

Request example

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search/research/papers \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "results": [
    {
      "paperId": "2014215642691656232",
      "primaryId": "arxiv:2105.05233",
      "ids": {
        "arxiv": [
          "2105.05233"
        ]
      },
      "title": "Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis",
      "abstract": "We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models...",
      "score": 0.0163934
    }
  ]
}

get/search/research/papers

Search papers by topic, method, benchmark, author, or category. Results include canonical paperId, preferred primaryId, source ids, title, abstract, score, and optional ranking signals.

For a workflow overview, see the Research Index guide.

Authorization

Authorizationstringheaderrequired#

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your API key.

Query parameters

querystringrequired#

Natural-language paper search query.

Length: min 1

kinteger#

Maximum number of ranked papers to return.

Default: 40

Range: 1–500

authorsstring#

Author substring filter. Repeat or pass a comma-separated value; all filters must match.

categoriesstring#

Paper category filter. Repeat or pass a comma-separated value; all filters must match.

fromstring#

Inclusive lower bound on created/updated date.

tostring#

Inclusive upper bound on created/updated date.

Responses

application/json

Ranked paper results.

successbooleanrequired#

resultsobject[]required#

Show child attributes

paperIdstringrequired#

Canonical paper id, or web:<url> for SERP-discovered display results.

primaryIdstringrequired#

Preferred cite/fetch id such as arxiv:<id>, pmid:<id>, pmcid:<id>, or doi:<id>.

idsobject#

Source identifiers grouped by namespace.

Show child attributes

{key}string[]#

titlestringrequired#

abstractstringrequired#

scorenumberrequired#

signalsobject#

Show child attributes

structuralnumberrequired#

Raw structural graph signal.

semanticnumberrequired#

Semantic score from the intent search.

articleRanknumberrequired#

Structural expansion article-rank score.

seedOverlapintegerrequired#

Number of distinct seeds connected to this candidate.

Range: >= 0

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